[446] Le Con. du Vat. et le Mouvement Anti-Infallibiliste, pp. 6-10.
[447] Friedrich, p. 405.
[448] Quirinus, p. 771.
[449] Ibid., p. 772.
[450] Ibid., p. 773.
[451] Civiltá, VII. xi. 362. Acta Sanctæ Sedis has the same numbers.
[452] Friedrich, 406.
[453] When, in 1860, writing Italy in Transition, I read, on the recommendation of an Italian gentleman, a book by a well-known writer professing to describe the interior life of the Vatican; but found it too low to allow me even to allude to it, much less to quote it. What was my surprise when, a year or so later, appeared the work of Liverani, to find this very book—which even now I do not care to name—cited with that of About and of others, as a work the substantial accuracy of which the learned Domestic Prelate and Protonotary of the Holy See could not deny.
[454] Quirinus, p. 801. This astounding assertion does not rest upon the sole authority of Quirinus. Friedrich, in reporting the sayings of the Archbishop of Munich to the Faculty of Theology in that city on his return, gives the same assertion as repeated by his Grace. It had been a favourite theory with official writers that Quirinus was Friedrich, but as the latter left Rome in May, and Quirinus continued to write to the last, that theory had dropped out of sight. It is a curious coincidence in the present case that nearly all the incidents of this interview, mentioned by Quirinus writing in Rome on July 19, were repeated by Archbishop Scherr in Munich to the Faculty two days later. The substantial agreement of the two accounts is quite as great as that in several other cases which have induced men like Hergenröther to argue that Friedrich and Quirinus were one. The agreement is such as would be found between two practised writers hearing an account from the same eyewitness, or from two or three eyewitnesses, and immediately writing down what they had heard. Friedrich, p. 408 ff.
[455] An instance of the effect of perfect knowledge of Rome by personal residence, on the style of expression and description, may be seen in Mr. T.A. Trollope's interesting book, The Papal Conclaves, as compared with the unreal and conventional forms kept up by Englishmen who know neither the language nor the spirit of the people. Some of the latter, ever since the days of the Tracts for the Times, provoke smiles, and have gradually been acquiring for our country a reputation very unlike the old reputation of England for strong common sense, love of reality, and contempt for shows and fables.